Asbury University students speaking with Fox News Digital said 'radical humility' and deep bonds with teachers helped to create a multi-generation revival.
Evangelist Nick Hall discusses how is wanting to keep the energy around the Asbury revival going on ‘Fox News @ Night.’the Christian revival at Asbury University,
For many students on the Kentucky campus, the revival was a flurry of new faces. With around 2,000 students, Asbury's community went from a small town to a small city within days. According to students and faculty, the revival brought over 50,000 visitors, including students from over 200 schools.During the revival, one of those faces found Presta in her time of need. The day had already been hard for her. She was processing a lot.
"While they have access to all kinds of information globally, they also feel very isolated and then when you put the layer of COVID and lockdowns and things like that on top of their experience, even educationally and socially over the last several years—there are a lot of students in Gen Z that are really feeling alone," Whitworth said."The Christian life is not meant to be done in isolation. It's supposed to be done in community.
In his opinion, the true spiritual movement is people's ability to become humble in the presence of Jesus. Everyone is broken and everyone is messed up, but everyone can begin to heal if they let Christ into their hearts and minds, he suggested. The idea of collectivism cropped up repeatedly through discussions with students, who often described their relationships with the school under God as a singular force or body.
"While it did start with the students and in many ways is kind of ending with the students, that whole in-between space is a reminder that the revival wasn't just for the students. It was for the world. It was for, in my opinion, all the generations," she said. Working as a bridge between faculty and students, Pelletier said the revival opened the door for students to see professors as not only people but people who cared about them and their spiritual well-being.
Throughout the revival, faculty even created spaces for students to process what they had been experiencing inside Hughes auditorium. He said that the outpouring has created a warmth, even in his own heart and relationships with students, faculty, and staff, as well as a willingness and openness to engage with others on a deeper level.Whitworth also applauded students and faculty for the countless hours it took tointo their community in Wilmore.
Eswin Monroy wears many hats. He is a coordinator for the campus shuttles and works at the student center, among other things. Like many of the students at Asbury, he appeared humble, quick to highlight the accomplishments of others and slow to point out his own personal achievements."We have been crying out for a revival here at Asbury for the past 10-20 years. And to be part of the generation that brought it into being is just remarkable.
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